[Mediawiki-l] Delete single revisions from database

[Platonides]

Georg Jaehnig wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> some spammers made my "text" table explode, its size is now 170 MB,
> many rows with 2 MB. I've already deleted the spam revisions in the
> wiki with deleting the page and restoring only spam-free revisions (as
> described on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Administrators#Deletion).
> 
> But the spam rows are still in the "text" table. Is it safe to delete
> them manually?
> 
> I'm using Mediawiki 1.12.0.

Just run deleteArchivedRevisions.php from maintenance folder.
As always, make a backup first.